![]() ![]() I also know very little at all about the Vikings (or, perhaps more accurately, medieval Scandinavia) and thought this would be a good introduction to the topic. ![]() I decided to buy River Kings during a book shop haul because I had seen bits and pieces about it on Twitter. This is a major reassessment and a thrilling investigative story, revealing both the world of the Vikings and the cutting-edge forensic methods we use to understand them. Her investigation into its origins would cast radical new light on the Vikings – from the surprisingly extensive Scandinavian forays into the East to the dominance of a global slave trade running between the Silk Roads and medieval Britain. In 2017, Cat Jarman came into possession of a small orange bead. ![]() River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads came out last year to critical acclaim, and is a very different type of history book to one that I usually read for its focus on archaeology rather than written records. ![]()
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